Thread by @SHAYMIROQUAI, Crazy Stories About Black Hollywood. I decided to do various eras. Thread [...]

Crazy Stories About Black Hollywood.

I decided to do various eras.

Thread inspired by Quincy Jones’ Vulture interview

I’m putting allegedly so that if anything here is considered slanderous, I won’t get sued.
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Aretha Franklin has her first child at age 12. Her father was a promiscuous pastor that had gay sex orgies inside the church. There were false rumors that her father was the father of both of her children due to the records being sealed.

Ray Charles had 12 children with 10 women. He didn’t have a stable relationship with his children or their mothers due to there being so many, plus his drug addiction kept him away from them for awhile.

When Curtis Mayfield was plugging in his guitar, a gust of wind toppled a light tower near the stage, striking him in the head. The accident caused three broken vertebrae and paralysis from the neck down. He suffered from severe pain & couldn’t make music anymore.

It is said that when Billie Holiday was laying handcuffed to her death bed (she was arrested for possession of narcotics) she had $750 stuck in her vagina. Her last words were codeine and bourbon.

Nat King Cole and his family moved to a Los Angeles suburb (Hancock Park) in 1948. They were the first black people to live there. Their arrival sparked protests, the Cole family’s Dog was poisoned and murdered, and racial insults were burned into their yard.

Sammy Davis Jr., fell for actress Kim Novak in 1957. There was backlash in the industry because of their union coming from Columbia Pictures head Harry Cohn. Cohn ordered a hit from the mob which forced Sammy to marry singer Loray White.

Pam Grier didn’t know that her boyfriend at the time, Richard Pryor was putting cocaine in her vagina. She didn’t find it until her doctor told her she had a buildup of cocaine residue around the cervix and in the vagina. Pam could never have children due to this.

James Brown kicked Bootsy Collins out of his band for doing drugs. James Brown originally was straight edge and extremely judgmental of anyone doing drugs. Which is interesting because later in his career, James struggled from drug addiction as well.

Throughout the years, it has been rumored that Stevie Wonder isn’t actually blind and that he got surgery to fix his eye sight (which apparently isn’t perfect but he can see slightly). Stevie makes fun of these rumors.

Tammi Terrell was physically abused by James Brown and David Ruffin so badly that they both were accused of being the reason she developed a brain tumor.

Diana Ross was hated by her peers and wanted to be treated like royalty. Paul Williams from The Temptations once said: “If it wasn& #39;t for me, Miss Ross would still be in the Detroit ghetto and now I can& #39;t even have a conversation with her unless I clear it with six people.”

Terrence Trent D’Arby believes that Michael Jackson and Prince are both the reason his career didn’t go further than it did.

D’Angelo was in a relationship with Angie Stone. D’Angelo’s team was against their relationship because she was “fat and dark” so they forced him to hide their relationship. He was forced to pretend to be single publicly. There’s an episode in the show Girlfriends based on this.

Ronald Isley was cashing royalty checks that belonged to his dead brother O’Kelly Isley. Ronald evaded the IRS by demanding case payments for millions of dollars in performance fees he earned between 1997 and 2002. He also put homes and a yacht in the name of his ex wife.

Miles Davis hated photographs that featured him smiling, feeling they fell in line with a caricaturish image of black men.

George Clinton once owned his own hair salon called The Silk Palace. One day, two kids walked in with counterfeit money, about $1.2 million in fake 20-dollar bills. Clinton bought it from them for $2,000 and used the money to refurnish the salon and to pay for studio time.

Alexander O’Neal once said that Prince kicked him out of The Time for being “too black”.

Marvin Gaye married Berry Gordy’s sister Anna Gordy. Anna Gordy was older and had issues with conceiving a child, so Marvin had a kid with her niece Denise at age 17. Anna adopted the child and named him Marvin III. Denise later married Richard Lawson and had Bianca Lawson.

One time when Redd Foxx was having a heart attack, the cast of Sanford and Son thought he was joking due to the fact his character in the show often faked heart attacks. They were all standing around him laughing. Coincidentally, he died from a heart attack.

Sherman Hemsley was unburied for months due to a dispute between his manager (who he left as his sole beneficiary) and his boyfriend. Sherman Hemsley’s estate only worth 50,000 when he died.

Harry Belafonte once told Eartha Kitt after sex “I don’t want you to take me seriously, because no Black woman can do anything for me’. Eartha said she could not help him to progress into where he was going to go. A black woman would hold a black man back’.”

Bin Laden was in love with Whitney Houston and plotted to murder Bobby Brown. He thought she was the most beautiful woman to ever live according to Kola Boof.

En Vogue’s nick name for Luther Vandross was Lucifer. He made his crew hang drapes so he wouldn& #39;t have to see them backstage. Luther saw that a member of En Vogue had wandered over to his side of the curtain. His called the police to demand the group be charged with trespassing.

Chaka Khan hated Whitney Houston’s cover of I’m Every Woman and said she needed to make her own music. She was also accused of being the one to get Miki Howard hooked on drugs.

Sam Cooke was Bobby Womack’s mentor. Three months after Sam’s death, Bobby married Sam’s widow. Bobby showed up to Sam’s funeral in Sam’s clothes, driving Sam’s car. Sam’s brothers assaulted him. Bobby and his wife divorced because he had an affair with her 18 year old daughter.

The Beatles once owned Little Richard’s catalog. When MJ purchased Beatles’ catalog, that meant that Michael Jackson now owned Little Richard. I can’t find verification on if it’s true that MJ gave his catalog back or if he couldn’t give it back bc of Sony & offered Rich a job.

Al Green was a serial cheater until his girlfriend at the time, Mary Woodson threw hot grits at him while he was bathing. After throwing hot grits at him, she used Al’s gun to kill herself.

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